Miles

It's currently 5° outside, so here's a little teaser video. Nobody in Iowa had a TermLab, so I guess I'll have to wait until MWSPL comes to town.

It might be from wiring to 0.5 ohm. I had an old Powerbass amp that would do that at 0.5 ohm for whatever reason. Just a theory?

I like the dye! Also, to get a nice glossy finish, once your poly is dry then lightly sand with 4/0 steel wool, and apply another coat.

I'll hopefully get some videos this week or weekend. I absolutely love the Alpha. It's continuing to break in, and gets louder every time I play it. Nobody in Iowa has a TL i guess, so won't be metering until a MWSPL comp rolls around up here.

After about an hour of testing I can confidently say that the Renegade severely needs sound deadener in the rear hatch. This thing rattles more than a ghetto trunk setup.

I wish more people complimented the wood grain, instead of covering it with carpet, bedliner, or paint. And took the time to sand, poly, resand, poly, resand again, and poly to get a deep rich pattern.

Night shot

It's a perfect fit! I'll get some pictures tonight of the LED's.

Here she is! Installed in all her glory. Just turned it on enough to make sure it was playing. Will be driving it tonight to get a better listen.

As soon as the Jeep gets back to the house (tomorrow late) I'll hopefully have some pictures Saturday and maybe a video showing everything!

If he plans to compete, fire passenger side. If he's the only one that rides in the truck most of the time and just wants to enjoy himself, fire towards the driver side. Also in a truck situation where you're side firing I personally would rather see between 10 and 12 square inches per Cube rather than 13 to 15. So 12 should sound awesome.

When you go from say one 4" aero to two 4" aeros, you've increased port area. To keep the same tuning, your port length has to increase as your port area increases. And the length it's giving is each port individually.

Finished! Plexi window installed, port painted, and red LED's installed inside the box. I think this is my favorite build to date.

Kind of. Search "Keda wood dye". Basically it is stain, but the amount of colors you can stain wood with are limitless because you mix the powder into water or alcohol and make any color you want.

I think wood dye is my new favorite thing to play with. I LOVE this color! And it'll be shining bright with 3 coats of poly on it!

Everything is rounded over and sanded. Now to test some dye color and bring this thing to life! Box will be orange (to match the vehicle) and port will be bedliner black. Once it's all said and done, the plexi window will be installed.

Central Iowa. I don't build commercially anymore. Sorry.

Thanks! I've always tried to be creative (different) just because it gets boring seeing 100 people build boxes that all look pretty much the same. When I built boxes as a side job a few years ago in Oklahoma, I did some crazy stuff (triple octaport 6th order bandpass, SSA freehand jigsaw cutout inside of a brace, t-line in the shape of a snailshell/octagon). Actually, if you go back to the main forum page and scroll almost all the way down, look through the subforum "McGovney Designs". That's some of my work from a few years ago. So was about time to have some fun again. And this enclosure still has quite a ways to go.

Just out curiosity, what had you imagined? There are 6 screws attached it to the floor of the enclosure (from the bottom up), and pocket holes that attach it to the front of the box.

Thanks! I've been doing this for a few years. My real passion is furniture building. But, all the same principles apply to box building.

Well, final construction is done. Just going to let the glue cure overnight before I flush trim the back side, but then she'll be ready for some orange dye and polyurethane! I'm extremely happy with how the box has turned out (especially the port). Oh, and the 9" hole in the front is the viewing window. Everyone does square/rectangular windows, so I wanted to do something different. Also need to buy some LED's to put inside the box. I can't decide whether I want to paint the inside white, or just poly it and leave it a natural finish. Suggestions?

Thank you! I should be finishing the construction after work today, and start testing wood dye's.

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Correct. That is just the port. 2.5" tall, 21" wide, and 13" long.

Ive only seen this once before, and it was in a firebird with 4 12's under the window. Subs forward port back. Fella that went by the name AQFirebird. Competed in MWSPL years ago.